Vigil@nce - GNU libiberty: memory leak via demangle_template
January 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: RHEL.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 06/11/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can create a memory leak via demangle_template() of
GNU libiberty, in order to trigger a denial of service.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/GNU-libiberty-memory-leak-via-demangle-template-30791